Money and the Power The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America

Name: Money and the Power The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
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ISBN: 9780375701269

ISBN-10: 0375701265

ISBN-13: 9780375701269

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Authors: Sally Denton, Roger Morris

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Las Vegas–the name evokes images of divorce and dice, prostitutes and payoffs, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. Now, at the dawn of the new century, this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant “sin city,” but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic network of links to Wall Street,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Prologue: First City of the Twenty-first Century



The Juice



Meyer Lansky: The Racketeer as Chairman of the Board



Benny Binion: The Outlaw as Icon



Pat McCarran: The Democrat as Autocrat



Bugsy Siegel: The Executioner as Entrepreneur



Hank Greenspun: The Hustler as Conscience



Estes Kefauver: The Opportunist as Prophet



City of Fronts



"Beyond This Place There Be Dragons"



"This Alliance of Gamblers, Gangsters, and Government"



"Temple Town of the American Dream"



"Character Loans"



American Mecca



A Party in Carson City



An Enemy Too Far Within



"Cleaning Out the Sucker"



High Rollers



One Last Cruise



"A Joint's a Joint"


Epilogue: Shadow Capital


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index